Georges Scelle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Georges Scelle

French judge

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1878

Place of Birth: Avranches, Normandy, France

Date of Death: 08-Jan-1961

Profession: judge, jurist, university teacher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Georges Scelle (19 March 1878 Avranches (Manche) – 8 January 1961) was an international jurist and member of the United Nations International Law Commission. Scelle attended the Law Faculty and the École Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris, where he was awarded a prize for his thesis, "La traite négrière aux Indes de Castille", written under the supervision of Antoine Pillet. Scelle was Professor at the Law Faculty of Dijon for 20 years (Public International Law and Industrial Relations Law).
Published the first volume of the Précis de droit des gens shortly before joining the University of Paris (1933) where he taught Public International Law until his retirement in 1948.
He exerted a considerable influence on the generation which dominated both French public service and academic law circles from the 1930s until today.
Influential academics or diplomats such as Georges Berlia, Lazare Kopelmanas, Guy de Lacharrière, Georges Burdeau, Charles Rousseau and René-Jean Dupuy had Georges Scelle as teacher.